Books

I Blame Dennis Hopper And Other Stories From a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies by Illeana Douglas (Flatiron Books, $29.99)

By Andreas Kessaris for Curtians Up! “’Illeana, your life is like a movie.’  I hear that all the time – so much so that I finally accepted it.  My life is like a movie!  But so is yours.  The greatest compliment I can give myself or anyone reading this is to say, You are the […]

Film/TV

Curtains Up on Life Itself

by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up!  (@AKessaris) I first heard of Roger Ebert, or more accurately Sneak Previews (the PBS movie-review show he co-hosted with Gene Siskel), thanks to Mr. Eccles, my Grade Six teacher at Barclay Elementary who spoke of the show (broadcast locally on Vermont-ETV), often in class.  From the first time I saw […]